Photographs

The photographic collection of the Museu Nacional do Teatro e da Dança (Portuguese Theater and Dance National Museum) has more than one hundred fifty thousand photographs, mainly vintage prints. It is one of the most important photographic assets in Portuguese stage arts. With an unmatched documental value in the country, it’s the live graphic memory of a significant part of the Portuguese theatrical past. It´s exceptional relevance to theatrical studies, art history, visual, cinema, musical and cultural studies lie in it’s constitution integrating the artist union archive with the documental estates of the major personalities of Portuguese stages and theatrical companies.